Features
Everything a barn needs to keep mortality under control.
Flock Sentry is the only category product built to hit labor, biosecurity, and welfare at once. Below is what the robot does today, grouped by the outcomes that matter to integrators and growers alike.
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Continuous removal
Always-on patrol is designed to remove carcasses on a target sweep cadence of two hours or less, against a manual 12-24 h window.
Under-line recovery
A low-profile arm reaches up to about 0.8 m per side to recover carcasses from beneath low feed and water lines, with rake-assist for heavy or deep birds.
Sealed batching bin
A leak-proof, gasketed bin with an odor-control filter contains carcasses and fluids so the robot never seeds the pathogen reservoir it exists to remove.
Configurable drop-off
Tip-empty at one or more operator-defined drop-off zones, with mid-barn placement recommended to cut trip overhead.
Per-barn dwell
Each robot is dedicated to one barn by default, and any transfer between barns is gated behind a recorded sanitation step.
Welfare and compliance
Zero live-bird grasp target
A multi-stage confidence and confirmation gate is built so the manipulator never knowingly grasps a live bird; any sign of life aborts the pickup.
Gentle motion envelope
Governed speed under 0.45 m/s, limited acceleration and jerk, and reduced speed near birds are designed to prevent startle and panic piling.
Continuous feed and water access
The robot does not park over or block feed pans and drinker lines, and is built not to damage or contaminate enrichments or the litter pack.
Quiet by design
A self-imposed acoustic cap at or below typical barn ventilation noise is targeted so the robot adds no startle over the fan baseline.
Audit-ready records
Yields, near-contacts, aborted grasps, speed logs, and mortality logs are exportable for NCC and GAP review and retained for at least a full flock cycle.
Autonomy in a hostile barn
Darkness operation
Active LiDAR, radar, and IR illumination keep navigation and detection at full performance down to 0 lux, with no dependence on ambient light.
Through-dust sensing
mmWave radar provides a guaranteed through-dust backstop, with graceful degradation and a clean alert rather than silent false negatives.
Auto-recharge
The robot returns to its dock and recharges autonomously, with a first-attempt dock success target of 99% even in dust and darkness.
Washdown ready
Sealed to an IP66 operating baseline with IP69K on wash-critical subsystems, built for the same disinfectant cycle as the house.
Self-extraction
Slip and bog detection trigger an automatic recovery maneuver, with a located stuck alert if the robot cannot free itself.
Monitoring, data, and control
Mortality dashboard
Daily and per-pass counts in absolute birds, cumulative trends, and size and age distribution, with percent as a flock-size-aware secondary view.
Spatial heatmap
A map of where deaths occur surfaces heat, ventilation, and disease clustering, alongside live robot position and coverage status.
Smart alerts
Categorized alerts for stuck, blocked, low battery, bin full, faults, mortality spikes, and human-assist, by push, email, or SMS with escalation.
Human-verification queue
Low-confidence detections are packaged with imagery for a remote approve, deny, or take-a-closer-look decision, without a site visit.
Manual teleoperation
A privileged, dead-man-gated teleop mode with live IR video, while onboard safety, speed, and welfare limits stay authoritative.
Operations and serviceability
Simple daily oversight
Core daily actions take only a couple of taps, with a target of 15 minutes or less of grower oversight per barn per day at baseline mortality.
Offline tolerant
Patrol, detection, pickup, and logging continue through a total comms outage on barn Wi-Fi with cellular fallback, syncing on reconnection.
Fast install
A trained technician can install and commission a barn, including dock and localization markers, within a single working day.
Tool-light service
High-wear parts such as gripper pads, tracks, filters, and lenses are designed for quick, low-tool replacement within the between-flock window.
Secure access
Role-based access for grower, manager, vet, technician, and IT admin, with MFA and SSO, plus a documented API for farm-management integration.
Mission control for the barn
Put a sentry in every barn.
Flock Sentry is an autonomous robot that patrols your broiler house around the clock, clearing every dead bird before it spreads disease.